Insulating-hanger.



J. BIGHAM. INSULATING HANGER,

APPLIUATIOH FILED APR.28,1910.

Patented Nov. 29, 1910 INV'ENTOR g fim Wan/Eu WITNESSES Attorneys.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

NEAL JAY IBIGI-IAM, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO HARRY A. ROBERTSON, OF

GRAND RAEIDS,

HEICHIGAN.

INSULATING-HANGER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 29,1910.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NEAL JAY Brenner, a citizen of the United States, residing at Detroit, county of \Vayne, State of Michigan, have invented a certain new and useful improvement in Insulating-Hangers, and declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to insulating hangers. It has for its object an improved hanger adapted to be used in internal electric wiring work, and which can be used where it is desired to draw the conducting wires tightly.

The hanger in which the invention is e1nbodied comprises a pair of hanging hooks of which the noses are turned toward each other and are spaced by only a small interval, and a belaying projection around which a loop of the wire may be turned after it has been drawn under the bill of one of the hooks and before it is drawn under the bill of the other.

In the drawings :Figure 1, is a front elevation. Fig. 2, is a plan view. Fig. 3, is a diagrammatic front elevation. Fig. 4, is a diagraini'natic side elevation. Fig. 5, is a section along the line aa of Fig. 3. Fig. (3, is a reverse plan view.

The hanger consists of a cylindrical body member 7) provided with a bore (Z by means of which it may be secured to the ceiling or to a hanger depending from the ceiling by driving a screw or other fastening device through the bore. In order that the hanging hooks c, hereinaftermentioned, may hang substantially central from the cylinder k) the bore is driven through the cylinder slightly inclined to bring its upper end central and its lower end somewhat eccentric to the center, but as near thereto as may be. Two hooks c depend from the cylinder and the bills f of these hooks face each other and approach closely together so that the space between the two bills f is only slightly greater than the thickness of the wire to be used in the hanger. Behind the bills is an oval opening large enough to freely hold the two thicknesses of wire to be fixed to the hanger at this point. Just above the opening is a belaying projection e that extends to the front and terminates in line with the contour of the body part b of the hanger. Above the projection e is a notch g in which the wire is laid. The rear faces of the hooks c are substantially along the diameter of the body 5, thus affording room underneath the main part of the hanger and immediately behind the hooks c to produce the necessary turn of the wire without causing the wire to project at the rear beyond the body part b of the hanger. At the front the turn of the wire is made entirely underneath the projection c and the turn of the wire carried up along the side of the pro jection c in what substantially constitutes a groove in the body Z2, and no part of the wire extends radially out from the center of the body part b of the hanger beyond the regular cylindrical contour thereof, thus the turn, which serves to support the wire in every direction is made without producing any unsightly knobs or protuberances on the hanger.

What I claim is A hanger for electric wires comprising a body part provided with hanging hooks of which the bills are directed toward one an other, and a belaying projection located above the opening between the bills of said hooks and below a notch intervening between the belaying projection and the body of the hanger, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I sign this specification in the presence of two witnesses.

NEAL JAY BIGHAM.

Witnesses:

CHARLES F. BURTON, VIRGINIA C. SPRATT. 

